Marixsts View

Question 1

General view

Answer 1

• reproduction of an efficient and obedient workforce
• bourgeoisie own the means of production
• proletariats are exploited by b and struggle under capitalism
• p remain in a state of false class consciousness as schools promote b values
• school divides society

Question 2

Bowles and Gintis

Answer 2

• meritocracy = a myth
• education = “stands in the long shadow of work”
• correspondence principle is transmitted through the hidden curriculum
• school mirrors the future of work e.g:

SCHOOL = students can’t control what is taught
WORK = workers age no control over what’s made

SCHOOL = hierarchy of teachers
WORK = hierarchy to bosses

Question 3

Ivan Illich

Answer 3

• de-schooling = abolish schools
• schools is a brainwashing mechanism that causes people to follow

Question 4

Louis Althusser

Answer 4

• reproduction of an efficient and obedient workforce
• believed in the ideological state apparatus = students are controlled though norms, values and beliefs promoted by school
• false consciousness = inability to recognise inequality, oppression and exploitation in a capitalist society —> class inequalities as the proletariats remain subordinate

Question 5

Eval of Marxists view

Answer 5

• class structure is more complex that just bourgeoisie and proletariats e.g. more mc people

Paul Willis (1977) - neo Marxist

• studies group of 12 wc boys (the ‘lads’) during las 18 months at school and first few months at work
• they rejected hc and teacher labelling
• rejected qualification —> manual jobs didn’t need qualifications
• ‘having a laff’ was mor important than working